Hurricane Sandy Concert: 12-12-12

Watching Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi performing Born to Run, it doesn't get any better than that. The Hurricane Sandy concert is 5 hours and judging from the first half hour, it's going to be an incredible show. The Rolling Stones and the Who will also perform, among others. Billy Crystal is hosting and he's funny again. Celebrities are manning the phone banks.

Two billion people world-wide can watch.

All money donated goes to the Robin Hood Relief fund. There's a lot of ways to donate. Here's one. Or you can call 1-855-465-HELP. You can also help by ordering the music from the concert on iTunes. [More...]

Update: What a phenomenal concert. It's just ending now. Truly an amazing feat putting this together.

The final Stones concert for this leg of their anniversary tour is Saturday night. Appearing with them: Springsteen, Lady Gaga and the Black Keys. I've already ordered the Pay Per View to watch it live.

If anyone was wondering what Roger Daltry's chest looked liked in 1975, here's a picture.

Who was your favorite tonight? No surprise here, mine were Bon Jovi and the Rolling Stones.

was the message all over Facebook and Twitter -- and he must have heard the word, because he finally did . . . after the zoom shots of his waxed and weirdly orangy-red torso and his cardiac surgery scar.

Google for the Twitter feed for "Roger Daltrey" for comments, the most fun we've had tonight, and that's saying something. What a show -- and it looks like it's going to keep going 'til 12/13/12.

Glad to see you haven't changed. You might remember me from years ago when I posted under a somewhat similar handle. Left during the Obama-Clinton wars of 07. Thought perhaps a truce has been declared and sanity restored by now.

The Stones are no shrinking violets when it comes to who they'll share the stage with. I've seen them with Stevie Wonder, BB King, Terry Reid, Charlie Daniels, Chuck Berry, Chaka Khan (Rufus) and that's just off the top of my head. And I haven't seen them for over 20 years (although I have been to 5 of their concerts).

But speaking of back-to-back shows: they must be slowing down some after all this time. I saw Stevie Wonder in the first of two shows on the same day at the Rolling Stones show at the Coliseum in Denver.

the show to find out -- but I was wondering if anyone knows how the Robin Hood Relief fund will distribute the money -- do victims of Sandy apply for aid? Do representatives of the fund go around to disaster areas and estimate costs for rebuilding and then distribute the money? Will all the money go to individuals who suffered losses or injuries - or will some of it go toward public works that were damaged? Will the money go directly to individuals or to different agencies, governmental or private, to distribute funds?

I'm tending bar for a company's Christmas Party that's being held tonight over at Murphy's, and won't be done until 12:00 midnight. But thank you for providing the information for donations. We'll be sure to send something tonight or tomorrow.